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单词 supersonic transport
释义

supersonic transport

noun

: a supersonic transport airplane

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Aviation startup Boom Supersonic is teaming up with defense behemoth Northrop Grumman to create a military version of its Overture supersonic transport. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022 When it was introduced in 1981, the supersonic transport plane seemed to represent the future of passenger air travel, but studies called it costly, inefficient and noisy. Robert D. Mcfadden, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020 Boeing won a government competition to build a supersonic transport in the 1960s but abandoned the project in 1971 when Congress eliminated funding. Christian Davenport, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019 But this Lockheed entry lost out to a Boeing model, and Congress canceled supersonic transport funding in 1971.-- State lawmakers agreed this month to hand over $650 million to big cities, counties and regional agencies to help fight homelessness. latimes.com, 27 June 2019 In 1976, Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington. BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

supersonic transport

noun

as in rocket plane

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